I used to be very happy with the old Premium Lite, I didn't need YouTube Music or other features of Premium, just wanted to pay to have ads removed on all devices and it was the perfect product for that.
Then they cancelled it, got the email back in 2023 and resorted back to add-ons to block ads, stopped watching videos on devices that didn't support that, generally only watched YouTube on the computer for educational purposes.
When I saw it was back my first thought was "are you fucking kidding me?", I simply cannot comprehend Google's product strategy, at all. The "data-driven" bullshit for determining features, product tiers, etc. turns out to be just the McNamara fallacy applied to digital products, I can't see another way to explain the whiplash Google goes through in their product decisions, feels like everyone over there responsible for these decisions is only looking at insights, dashboards, etc. without ever thinking about what the hell the product is at its core.
piva00|8 months ago
Then they cancelled it, got the email back in 2023 and resorted back to add-ons to block ads, stopped watching videos on devices that didn't support that, generally only watched YouTube on the computer for educational purposes.
When I saw it was back my first thought was "are you fucking kidding me?", I simply cannot comprehend Google's product strategy, at all. The "data-driven" bullshit for determining features, product tiers, etc. turns out to be just the McNamara fallacy applied to digital products, I can't see another way to explain the whiplash Google goes through in their product decisions, feels like everyone over there responsible for these decisions is only looking at insights, dashboards, etc. without ever thinking about what the hell the product is at its core.